Lunch this week

 

The greens with cran-raisins, Mandarine oranges and sunflower seeds had a dressing, which I poured on after the photo. That's chicken salad too. And a nice ripe tomato with a bit of sea salt.

I thought I couldn't possibly eat it all.  A week ago tomorrow when those fevers started, my appetite was gone. But today I'm feeling much better, no fevers. Just have to pace myself. I do one thing, then rest. Both need to take about the same amount of time for it to balance so I don't feel overwhelmed.

Wheee...things are moving along. That refers to getting my dear gut back to normal...whatever that is. Hope all these meds will be the answer...but you know how hopes for meds are...that and $2 will get you a cup of coffee. Just kidding. I don't like having lots of new chemicals in my body at once. Where's the balance in that?

I hope everyone has a good lunch today!

Today's quote:

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. 

-Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

You mentioned food...

 My salad for lunch today.

I love having the banana bites available when the seasoned dressing is too hot. Whew, I could see the cayenne floating in it. I will try using one of my own like blue cheese, or ranch maybe next time. I ususally get 2 of these big salads out of one order at the caterer called "That Salad."

Fresh organic corn on the cob with leftovers of salmon, green beans and mushrooms and basmati rice with a marmalade vinegar sauce. I needed more marmalade or less vinegar. It's a jar of marmalade that is very dry so it won't spread on toast, but I love the flavors...so cook with it sometimes.

I try to help this business stay going...stopping for my fav take-out personal pan mushroom pizza and a side salad, hold the cukes, with blue cheese dressing. (Note, I save the crusts and dip them in the dressing!

Today's quote:

“Love is that condition in the healing spirit so profound that it allows us to forgive.” Maya Angelou

Potpourri

  

In Asheville there's a big intersection where Biltmore Ave veers to the right, and McDowell St. starts to the left. If you go straight, you only get one lane. And here I sat at the front of the line, and quickly took a photo through the windshield of a beautiful church, All Souls Cathedral. Maybe it's just a Church. But I do like the architecture.

I often take the left fork in this y-intersection which also leads people to the entrance to the Biltmore Estate. So most of the traffic goes that way. I'm facing the town of Asheville, and coming off of I-40 Interstate.

A lunch salad in one of my favorite bowls.

A friend recently visited Cumberland Island National Seashore. On that island are the remains of a Carnegie mansion. There are also a herd of wild horses on the island. I have great memories of camping or just beaching and hiking on that great Georgia island!

Chinese Chang's 5-T1 visit to the far side of the moon in 2014 took this photo.

I got these two brain-improving additives...and am taking the one on the left. My friend was going to try the one on the right, but upon reading what side effects the main ingredient gave, she's passing on it. So I looked on line to see more reviews of Nootropic Supplements.  Very interesting!

Today's quote:

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. 

-Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 31 Aug 1932)

Merry Christmas

Last Saturday I met friends for lunch at The Bistro, and had this fabulous salad (a piece of broiled halibut, apple, walnuts, blue cheese dressing...oh my!)